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by tygorius 16y ago
In terms of raw bytes it's probably more data than every book You're referring to the aggregate, so far as I know copyright law works on specific instances. Let's say the Kindle had a button that allowed you to isolate a couple of sentenc
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by tygorius 16y ago
dup http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2177218
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by tygorius 16y ago
Yeah, I agree that the overall utility and technical meat of his posts has dropped off in the last couple of years. (Critics will likely jump in with "What technical meat?") I don't think that's an issue with this particular post, however.
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by tygorius 16y ago
I think you're missing the importance of feedback, in particular the points of speed and quality. Writing more doesn't help if you're just repeating the same mistakes over and over. In the traditional writer's workshop, you write something,
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by tygorius 16y ago
If he'd written that Facebook was evil and the following are reasons no one should use it, I'd see your point. The closest he got to that it seems to me was pointing out the quantity/quality tradeoff. What he wrote were observations after q
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by tygorius 16y ago
Actually, it is as straightforward as all that. What's alleged is that someone searches for DenisM's book on Google, and when they click on one of the results, just that piece of data is forwarded to Microsoft. Not a scraping of all of Go
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by tygorius 16y ago
A nice blog entry on the emotional level, a fond remembrance of a father who's passed away. And yet... even as someone who knew (slightly) and liked (muchly) Jef Raskin, I find myself grinding my teeth every time Aza refers to his father as
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by tygorius 16y ago
Again you put the focus on Google. And again I ask, how is Microsoft's alleged behavior harming the user? Bing's increasing market share is presumably already due to providing value. If Google's unique sales proposition has become, "we find
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by tygorius 16y ago
I think google should have taken the humour route in the first place Good point. I think the current PR campaign, and really that is what it seems like now, is counterproductive. It used to be the response to Bing was "What, is that like
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by tygorius 16y ago
Bing is being parasitic to Google in this situation by generating no value for them. Well, perhaps Microsoft thinks its business involves providing value to their customers rather than its competitors. What seems consistently missing fr
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by tygorius 16y ago
Is this fair? Is this ethical? Is this even legal? Oh please. At worst, Microsoft's customers are sharing results of their browsing activities, based on information you gave them. How in the world could that be illegal? Your team is reall
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by tygorius 16y ago
Indeed. Drucker somewhere makes the point that a business's key activities are innovation and marketing -- which implies you don't necessarily have to be innovative in your marketing, just good at it. Hmmm... I was just thinking that rather
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by tygorius 16y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of "36 Hours", where German psychologist Rod Taylor tries to convince drugged and captured Army officer James Garner that the war is long over, the Nazis vanquished, but he's suffering from amnesia that occurred year
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by tygorius 16y ago
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? Not at all. If VS suits your needs, then rock on! Personally, I enjoy the occasional vi/vim story here, as in reading the comments I almost always come away with several new ways of doing th
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by tygorius 16y ago
I think you're going to have to lot further than that to be too pedantic for a discussion of programming editors. As a relative latecomer to vim, I think your distinction is worthy remembering. If you didn't start with vi, it's easy to assu
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by tygorius 16y ago
I'll echo the gvim menu hints recommendation for Windows users. As to copy/paste, does that depend on the platform? I use vim in a terminal on Linux and Ctl+Shft+C/Ctl+Shft+V on selected text works fine for clipboard transfers. I don't use
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by tygorius 16y ago
Sorry for the belated response, but for a sense of closure, so to speak, I'll add that I agree with your general assessment. Both languages started with a simple core that allowed developers to take some basic ideas and see just how far the
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by tygorius 16y ago
You're gotten a number of up-votes, yet this statement makes as much sense to me as saying bananas are the complete opposite of apples. You can make a case of similarity or dissimilarity depending on which language aspect you focus on. But,
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by tygorius 16y ago
So Lisp macros provide compile-time code generation, but in doing so, you have access not just to the code-generation instructions – which are just Lisp data – but also to the entire Lisp language and environment. The same can be said for
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by tygorius 16y ago
We must have read different articles. The one I read didn't fault the students, first of all. She merely pointed out that they had been prepared with a narrow focus and weren't demonstrating interest in or thinking about larger frame issues
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by tygorius 16y ago
IQ isn't static, so it's quite possible for someone's IQ to dip out of the "genius" range. Interpreting Reiser's increasingly bizarre behavior as signs of internal dysfunction, it's quite possible he would no longer test as a genius. Certai
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by tygorius 16y ago
What NYT seems to want you to think: Test taking is the best way to learn. Forget in depth studying techniques or figuring out how you yourself learn. I had the opposite reaction. I figured the writer had been so indoctrinated into the vi
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by tygorius 16y ago
Recalling information is not necessarily learning. That 'drawing-relation-diagrams' method contributes more towards understanding in my view. As far as I know, all definitions of learning include the ability to recall. As the article poin
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by tygorius 16y ago
I agree with what several have already pointed out here, that a key point is that the famous programmers interviewed already understood their code and hence using a debugger to better understand it is not particularly useful. I've been st
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by tygorius 16y ago
A lot of writing on creativity boils down to "Hey, here's what works for me." The approaches are sometimes wildly different and the value of reading other people's approaches is when you find another tool to add to your kit. If this author'
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by tygorius 16y ago
Often people think that clutter is about stuff when really, it boils down process and priorities. In that regard, getting rid of unnecessary stress is one of the goals of uncluttering your life. Also, it isn't about filling your head with u
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by tygorius 16y ago
Fundamentally silly. Based on the fallacy of the excluded middle, with zero quantitative data to back up assertions. At least the dot-com hockey-stick graphs started with points of established data. Particularly dubious is extrapolating A
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by tygorius 16y ago
Actually if there's any one lesson to be learned from the last dozen years of the stock market's swings, it is that "buy and hold" is dead as a useful investment strategy. As to gambling vs. trading, there's a whole industry of people who t
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by tygorius 16y ago
> a single developer torpedoing a popular project over the objections of both other developers and users So, your point is that developers should only enforce their rights when it will be popular ? I was singularly unimpressed by the b
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by tygorius 16y ago
Interesting. Stiegler's book is copyrighted 1988, but "Zetetic" references were also briefly popular in the mid-1970s as well. If I recall correctly P.J. Plauger had a Zetetic Institute in one of his SF stories back then, for example. The t

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